A 27-year-old Oneida County woman is being accused of trying to hire a hit-man to kill her husband.

Rhinelander Police said 27-year-old Megan Danielczak was arrested Thursday after making a down payment with an undercover agent, who was posing as a hit-man. The money was given to the agent with the understanding that Danielczak’s husband would be killed, according to police. Police did not say how much she gave for a down payment, but that it was a mixture of money and property.

Investigators said Danielczak wanted to kill her husband because she is named as the beneficiary on his life insurance policy. Detectives were tipped off by a friend of the suspect.

Danielczak is being held on a $15,000 cash bond.

This is the second time in the last five years that a woman has been arrested in a murder-for-hire situation in central Wisconsin. A Merrill woman was convicted of trying to hire someone to kill her boyfriend. Jessica Strom was charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional homicide, after investigators say she offered money and sex to a man to kill her boyfriend.

Former Duluth and Superior Mayor Herb Bergson was arrested this week after crashing his vehicle and leaving the scene, according to Douglas County Sheriff Tom Dalbec.

The 61-year-old Bergson was booked around 5:17 p.m. Tuesday, according to the county’s jail roster. Dalbec said Bergson’s vehicle left the road and crashed into a tree.

Dalbec said Bergson had left the scene, and deputies tracked him down at his cabin in Lake Nebagamon. Dalbec couldn’t immediately provide the location of the crash.

Bergson pleaded not guilty in Douglas County Court Wednesday on charges of obstructing an officer and not having an Ignition Interlock Device installed in his vehicle in connection with a previous OWI charge.

Bergson, who has a Madison address, most recently was jailed for a third DWI in 2014.

His first drunk-driving offense was in 2005 while serving as Duluth Mayor. According to police records in that case, he was cited for drunken driving after he crashed his car in Spooner.

Bergson served as Duluth Mayor from 2003-2007. He also served as Mayor of Superior in the 1980s.

Two 19 year-old men from Sturgeon Bay had loaded guns in their car, when arrested at a high school in Mequon last Saturday.

Police said Willard Hartman and Benjamin Krohn brought three assault rifles onto the campus of Homestead High School. Officers found the guns and drugs in the car, after pulling the men over for an illegal U-turn. Hartman and Krohn said they were in Mequon to watch a high school basketball tournament.

Mequon Superintendent Matthew Joynt said the two were not targeting anyone in Mequon, or at the high school.

Krohn said in the criminal complaint that he brought the guns “in case he wanted to trade or sell them to someone.”

One of Representative Ron Kind’s opponents for the upcoming Democratic primary has been arrested on an outstanding warrant in New York City.

The La Crosse Sherriff’s department says Juliet Germanotta was arrested Monday after they were tipped off by the NYPD that she was wanted for grand theft.

The charges stem from a September 2017 incident in which Germanotta purchased a $4,800 ring from a jewelry store. She’s then accused of returning to the store and returning a less valuable ring for a refund.

The 36-year-old, who announced her candidacy as a Democrat, will be extradited back to New York to face the charges.

Wausau police have arrested a man after they say he tried to use a prescription drug to kill his unborn child.

Jeffery Smith is accused of going to the home of a woman who was 20 weeks pregnant with his child, who claims that he put something in her water bottle during the visit. Wausau Police then sent the bottle to the State Crime Labratory where it tested positive for Mifepristone, a drug used to terminate pregnancies.

Wausau detectives searched Smith’s home and found an empty package of Mifepristone and an empty package of Misoprostol, a drug used to induce labor.

Smith is currently being held on a $500,000 bond and the mother and baby were not hurt during the incident.

The lawyer for the daughter of a state representative charged in the drug overdose death of a pregnant woman has asked to have the trial moved. Cassie Nygren’s attorney claims pretrial publicity of the case will prevent an impartial trial.

Nygren, and her boyfriend Shawn Gray, face multiple charges in connection with the June 2017 death of Jennifer Skeen. On Monday, Nygren pleaded not guilty at arraignment. No trial date has been set.

State Representative John Nygren has regularly discussed his daughter’s struggle with drugs, which has led him to sponsor several bills aimed at combating the opioid epidemic.

Prosecutors have charged a Minocqua man with the 1982 murder of his wife. Robin Mendez is accused of killing Barbara Mendez to cover up an affair he was having with a 14-year-old girl at his church.

According to the criminal complaint, the girl told investigators that she had lied when she said Mendez couldn’t have committed the crime because she was talking to him on the phone at the approximate time of his wife’s death. Mendez’s daughters also told investigators they feel he “manipulated them into providing a false alibi for him,” and said he never took them to their mothers grave.

Barbara’s body was found in April of 1982 at the Park City Credit Union, where she was employed at the time. The cause of death was listed as multiple blunt injuries to the head including abrasions, lacerations, and a skull fracture. It’s believed that a pry bar or other tool could have been used in the attack.

Police say they have been building the case against Mendez for months now by re-interviewing witnesses. He was arrested on Monday and is being held on $250,000 cash bond.

A backlog of untested sexual assault kits could be cleared out by the end of the year.

The Department of Justice has been working to clear 6,350 kits that were never sent in for testing, some of which are more than 20 years old. Many of those kits were left sitting in police department or hospitals for a variety of reasons, such as testing was not needed to obtain a conviction or charges were not pursued.

After identifying 3,922 for testing, the state was initially working with a single private contractor to do the work. However, Attorney General Brad Schimel says the state has now signed a deal with two additional firms, Sorenson Forensics, in Salt Lake City, Utah and Marshall University Forensics Science Center, in Huntington, West Virginia, to help process the remaining potentially by the end of 2018.

Of the kits identified for testing, work is complete on 862 so far. Another 2,001 have been sent for testing at external labs.